• Overview
• Data and Facts
• Sectors
• Services
• Location
• Technology transfer
• Research and Development
• Incubator and Incentives

Adress

Via Borsari, 46
44100 Ferrara
(Emilia-Romagna)

Telephone

+39 0532 455353

Fax

+39 0532 247278

World Wide Web

http://

Data and Facts

Key data

• Founded in: 2001
• Number of departments: 5
• Number of cooperations: 14
• Number of foreign cooperations: 5
• Instruments: Zeiss Confocal Microscope LS-510; Nikon Eclipse 300 microscope with deconvolution and image analysis; Caliper IVIS-100 total body luminometer; Wallac3 Victor Perkin-Elmer Plate reader; 6 sterile hoods for cell culture; 4 CO2 incubators; 3 ultra centrifuges for cell fractionation studies; Robot for high-throughput plate handling plus highly sensitive plate reader (Microbeta Jet, PerkinElmer; full set up for digital microscopy).
• Total Number of Employees: 35
• Area for research facilities: 1.000 m²
• Total area: 1.500 m²
• Available area for new locations: The Centre is currently being restructured; therefore the space available cannot currently be estimated.

Sponsors

The sponsors are all public authorities:

• University of Ferrara,
• Agencies for financing scientific research (AIRC, Telethon, FISM),
• Emilia-Romagna Region (via the health department).

Objectives

• Build-up of new research activities
• Foundation of new companies
• Intensification of relations between universities and companies
• Creation of new jobs
• Attracting investors
• Economic exploitation of the scientific results
• Technological consulting for companies and institutions
• Enhancement of the technology level of companies and institutions
• Enhancement of job quality
• Enhancement of the competitiveness of companies
• Site support

Network

• Biopharmanet (www.biopharmanet.eu)
• Tecnopolo Ferrara and Members of the regional Life Sciences Platform.